.MTU1.MzU5MjY

[cross-written across top]: It makes me very sad to think of your home bereft as ours is of a pre cious mother. But each loss draws us nearer to each other and nearer to our Heavenly Father.

    We shall none of us

have many more part ings for we shall each be called ourselves. If I can only be as well prepared as you all are I shall not dread the summons.

                                Hillsdale, Michigan
                                                   March 23rd, 1878

Dear Aunt Jennie:-

                             Your letters were

very gladly received yesterday and I am sorry that I must answer in such a hurry, but father wants to take [this?] to the office at ten and so I have only about half an hour to write in. I have been pretty closely occupied this week as there has been a musical convention held in town and I have attended every eve- ning, and either morning or afternoon of each day. I went three times the first day but found that it was too much for me. Professor L. O. Emerson of Boston conducted it, and last even ing we closed with a concert which went